The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-02
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
It Resolves to Stand by the
G.. O. P:
HOWLS AND GROWLs OF FRAUD,
And Resolves to Adopt measures
to Break the solid South
Miscellaneous.
Tho National Union League.

WASHINGTON, MarcH IL he HoIiohaI
council of the National Union League
met this morning at the Ebbitt House
The following officers were elected
President, General Charles Il: Gros-
venor of Ohio; vice-presidents, William
u GhandIer. OF New HampshiTe G. A
BonteIIe, Maine; James S. Keglev,
PennsvIYania; Nathan Golf, West Vir-
ainiasJ II. O'Hara, North Carolina;
7, n Houck Tennessee; B. K. Bruce,
Mississippi; Thomas R. Rich, Mary
Land Lewis Mckenzie, Virginia; J. S.
Robertson, Ohio; corresponding secre
tary. John E. Bryant, Georgia; assist
ant corresponding secretary, Thomf 8
G. Baker, New York; treasurer, T. NJ (.
Clapp, District of Columbia; chaplain,
]. j. Cooper; Pennsylvania; marshal, j..
H. Bryne, Maryland; sergeant-at-arms,
S. T. Demar, Pennsylvania. At the
evening session the following preambi
and resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
The national council of the National
Union League, believing that this or
ganization may still render important
service to the county as well as to
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY,
will continue to labor to that end. 1t is
a well-known fact that the league rem
dered important service to the country
during the rebellion, the period of con
strdction. A new danger calls for our
continued efforts. The Democratic
party has secured control of the House
of Representative and presidency by
frauU and violence and seeks control of
the Senate by similar means. By fraud
and violence the south was made SOlidly
Democrat and is held solid. How to
secure a government of the people ana
by the people, giving to each
qualified voter the privilege Ct cast
lag - just ballot at each election,
and having the result OF the election
honestly amour c9d, is the great ques-
ton in American politics. To secure
such government, it is necessary that
the Republican party hall control both
houses of Congress and the presidency.
To accomplish that object, it is impOr-
TINT, if not necessary, to increase the
Republican strength in the SOut ern
States. How to strength en- the Repub-
lican party at the south is, therefore, a
question of first importance. In con-
side ration of this question, 1t is to have
in mind the fact that no Republican
has been returned as member of the
Fiftieth Congress from districtin which
Republican voters are mainly colored
except in Virginia, and in that State,
while the Republican strength was SUI
fic ent to secure something like fair
election. In word, the general state
ment may be made that the Democrats
of the south have, by fraud and vio-
lence, suppressed the colored vote when
necessary to give them power, and that
the only districts held by the Republic
cans are those i'll which the white Re-
publican strength is sufficient to secure
something like a fair election. 1t fol-
lows, therefore, that the only reason
able hope that the Republicans have
OF BREAKING THE SOLID SOUTH
in the immediate feature is in the sec
ton where we now have considerable
white Republican strength, and where
there is a reasonable hope that, with
proper effort, we may add to that
strength from the white voters Stretch
ing from Pennsylvania and Ohio nearly
TO the Gulf OF Mexico. is a mountain
most part were I on-slaveholders, The
people were farmers, not planters. Dur
ing the war majority of the people
were loyal to the Union. This section
embraced West Virginia and por-
lions OF Maryland, Kentucky, Virginia,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and
Alabama. In this section the Kepub-
llcan party now has considerable
strength; indeed, all of the Republicans
elected from the south to&he FIT tieth
Congress, except the members from,
Missouri, are from some portion of
this section. Here the Republican
party madeits only gains in the south al
the last election and here, with proper
effort the
SOLID SOUTH MAY BE BROKEN.
The National Union League is peculi
arly fitted to lead in the necessary pre-